Galloway Returns to Parliament After Astonishing Victory

This week George Galloway was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bradford West. To those who are not aware of George Galloway, here is a quick introduction. Galloway is the infamous British politician known for his support of Hamas (from whom he received a Palestinian passport) and his admiration for Saddam Hussein’s indefatigability. He was kicked out of the Labour Party in 2003, after which he formed his own party called RESPECT (Respect, Equality, Socialism, Peace, Environmentalism, Community, and Trade Unionism). It was during his time as a RESPECT MP that he impersonated a cat on the UK version of Celebrity Big Brother. He is perhaps best known on this side of the Atlantic for his appearance in front of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in which he was forced to answer questions relating to his questionable relationship with the Oil-for-Food Program.

The election in Bradford West was called after the sitting MP, Marsha Singh, resigned on medical grounds. To put Galloway’s win in perspective, in the 2010 election the Labour candidate (Singh) was elected with 45.5% of the vote, while the RESPECT candidate won 3.1%.

Yet over the weekend Galloway, the RESPECT candidate, won 55.9% of the vote, and Labour won 25%, a decrease of more than 20%. In fact, every party that competed in the by-election over the weekend lost votes, except UKIP which won 1.3% more votes than in 2010. This is astonishing. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, who has one of the safest Conservative seats in the country, won 58% of the vote in his constituency in Witney at the most recent election.

The Labour leadership must be worried. A relatively safe seat has been lost in a humiliating defeat to a man who seems to have made a career out of embarrassing himself and making outlandish defenses of groups such as Hezbollah.

The three major parties must take note of how Galloway campaigned. It is not enough to say that Galloway exploited the sizeable Muslim population in Bradford. Not all of the RESPECT votes came from Muslims. The best way to view Galloway’s return to the House of Commons is as one not of triumphant self-gratification, but as a representation of how unmotivated and disheartened the supporters of all three major parties are. Labour supporters view their leadership as too soft, the Liberal Democrats view their leadership as sell-outs, and Conservatives view their leadership as too flexible and open to compromise. While it will be easy for British conservatives to gloat over Labour’s humiliation, it is important to remember that they lost over 10,000 votes in Bradford-West, something that the staff at CCHQ (Conservative Campaign Head Quarters) should take note of. Norman Tebbit, a key advisor to Margaret Thatcher, gave a good analysis of the result for The Telegraph.

While the return of Mr. Galloway might well make the proceedings in the House of Commons more entertaining than they already are, it is important for British conservatives to not forget how tenuous their support is. George Galloway is wrong about almost everything, but he was right when he said the “mammoth vote” signaled a “total rejection” of Britain’s three major parties.

Galloway has received nothing but negative press from the MSM, since I’ve heard of him, so I figure he can’t be all bad if the establishment whores are all against him. What I’ve seen of him I liked: from what questioning I saw, he ripped new ones for the phony US pols who thought he was their chicken to pluck, just because he agreed to testify. He wasn’t intimidated and I say good for him.

it’s true – galloway is wrong about almost everything. however, it was a pleasure, during his testimony before congress, to see someone directly and clearly rebuke republicans to their faces: no-one in similar position in this country dared to do such during those dark years.

The free west is so powerful, there are free choices:
– leave those people alone in their home countries or bomb them
– import those people in masses or keep them out
and any combination of these.
What I find fascinating is the combination the us-anglo-axis has chosen.

Btw. – does one have to insult Mr. Galloway in order to be allowed a link to his performance before the US-Senate?

When the UK finally achieves its 3rd world majority, dhimmi politicians like George Galloway will be kicked to the curb. After all, why would Britain’s new rulers trust politicians who betrayed their own people?

Galloway’s victory is about as electrifying as Arnold Schwartzenegger’s in California nearly a decade ago. Arnold’s victory is not so electrifying today and actually helped bury his party in that state. Fortunately for Galloway, he has no party to destroy. His electrifying win is likely to make him about as politically relevant as Louisiana State Representative David Duke was over twenty years ago, the skunk of parliament. Galloway’s victory accomplishes two things. First, the buffoon has a soapbox to shout from. Second, for those who think deeper, Galloway’s win illuminates the depth of alienation and anti-British feeling in the Muslim ghettos of Britain. Britain ignores this warning at its peril.

Insofar as Britain’s Mr. Galloway is a fanatic, possibly a “witting agent” of a foreign power, chronically wrong about grave matters and culturally not quite “us” etc., he is very like our own “neoconservatives”, n’est-ce pas?